On a CopShow, one of the regular characters is a suspect. Or on a LawProcedural, one of the lawyers is sued over something. Or in a MedicalDrama, one of the doctors has been in a car crash and is rushed to their own hospital. Almost invariably, the character is investigated/defended/operated on by a close colleague, who insists against all protestations that they're able to be objective, which they're not. (After all, it's not like anyone else in that universe [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything is even able to do the job]].) On rare occasions the character will try to clear their own name, represent themselves in court, or even (because of necessity) operate on themselves.

Not a cheap plot in and of itself, it does however have to be used in moderation, otherwise things become preposterous. The worst offenders are ''{{ER}}'' (which had Mark's tumor, Carter and Lucy being stabbed, Jing-Mei and Pratt's car crash, Romano's arm being chopped off, Frank's heart attack, a swath of births and much more) and ''ThePractice'', which by the end had the characters involved in so many personal court battles that you had to wonder how the firm made any money.

See also WhoWatchesTheWatchmen, InternalAffairs. Not related to OneOfUs. ----!!Examples:* Happened to the paramedics of ''ThirdWatch'' quite a bit. Bobby was ''shot'' (and killed), Carlos was frequently in hospital for various amusing minor injuries (and one not-so-amusing major disease), Alex was killed in an explosion, and in the PilotEpisode Jerry was shot and had to retire. ** The [[NewYorkCityCops police characters]] were not much better off. Both Bosco and Faith spent long periods of time in hospital.* A few of ''Series/TheXFiles'' episodes end with either Mulder or Scully getting attacked by the [[MonsterOfTheWeek perp of the week]]. Also, by the end of the series, [[spoiler:they had both been [[MythArc abducted by aliens]]]]. It is clear that both agents are deeply involved in the MythArc story on a personal level.** "Avatar" had Mulder and Scully's boss AD Skinner suspected of murder. The agents were not officially investigating the case, but they meddled a lot and tried to help him because it was clear to them that somebody was trying to frame him.** "Zero Sum": Skinner has made DealWithTheDevil with the conspirators so that they would help Agent Scully. It bites him back in this episode when he's forced to systematically destroy evidence and then they blackmail him. Skinner is able to persuade Mulder that it was a set up.** "Demons": Mulder's gun has been used in a crime and he has no recollection of what has happened. Again, Scully was not leading the investigation, but she was allowed to be around and she found the exonerating evidence.* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':** "Profiler, Profiled" had this happen to Derek Morgan.** Reid, who [[JamesBondage gets kidnapped]] [[BreakTheCutie all the time.]] ** The 3rd season ep "Penelope" was completely made out of this trope, as the team has to find the guy who shot Garcia on her doorstep. (Who, for convenience's sake, also turns out be a serial killer.)** This concept then took over the first nine episodes of Season 5, after Hotch [[spoiler:was tortured in his apartment by George Foyet/The Reaper in 5x01.]] It was background for 8 episodes after that, culminating in the 100th episode with the BAU [[spoiler:trying to stop Foyet from killing Hotch's ex-wife Haley and son Jack.]]* Outbuildings of Rampart Hospital in ''Franchise/{{Emergency}}'' caught fire as part of the second season finale.* Has happened several times on ''Series/{{House}}'':** There is an episode in season 1 that describes House's infarction 5 years before the show started. It was a penultimate episode in which House was teaching, and it was not obvious he was talking about his own case (combined with two more).** In season two when Foreman [[spoiler:as well as House's rat and Cameron, ''almost'']] catches the disease of the week; season two finale when House is shot; season three when Cameron has an AIDS scare and season 4 when Amber is in a bus crash.** Season six starts off this way with House in a mental institution.** Thirteen, a member of House's team, is suffering from Huntington's Chorea.** Near the end of season 8 Wilson [[spoiler: has cancer. Double irony points since he's an oncologist.]]* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':** A SerialKiller kidnaps first Bones and Hodgins, and later Booth. [[spoiler: Gormagon's apprentice turns out to be Zack.]]** Played with in the episode where the Gravedigger, the Serial Killer who had abducted Bones, Hodgins, and Booth, finally goes to trial. The team realizes that in order to secure a conviction, they have to drop the charges on their own abductions and focus on one of the cases that doesn't involve them directly.** The 7th-season episode "The Crack in the Code" introduces a new Serial Killer who is specifically targeting FBI agents (even writing messages in a combination of blood from ''five different agents''), is as technologically savvy as Angela, and is at least as intelligent (if not [[UpToEleven more so]]) than [[InsufferableGenius Bones herself]].** Taken even farther in the season finale when [[spoiler:He successfully frames Bones for murder, causing her to go on the run.]]* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In an early season, Nick is a suspect in the murder of a hooker who he had slept with the night before (it was a set-up). Then from season 5 on this became a regular event during {{Sweeps}} and SeasonFinale episodes. Nick gets kidnapped in the end of season 5, Brass gets shot at the end of season 6, 4th ep of season 7 sees Greg get badly beat up when he tries to stop a violent gang, (it kills one of the gang but saves their intended victim) ''and'' Sara is kidnapped by the Miniature Killer at the end of the season. Season 8, Warrick is suspected of going vigilante and killing a mob boss they couldn't convict, gets cleared, then ''shot'' by the real perp. [[spoiler: Warrick dies and the perp is also one of their own, Undersheriff [=McKeen=].]] Then, Ecklie gets shot, and there's a connection with McKeen pulling strings from prison.* Happens on ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'' with Stella's [[FatalAttractor psycho boyfriends]], perps seeking revenge on Mac (and one shooting him nearly to death), the ep where Hawkes is framed for murder,the deaths of [[spoiler:Aiden and Angell]] and Danny taking heat for one of his rookies shooting an unarmed man during his stint as sergeant.* ''Series/CSIMiami'' had it as well. Speed was killed in season 3, Ryan's been in trouble several times, and naturally, with Horatio a few times.* ''Series/{{Monk}}'':** Subverted. [[spoiler: The Captain's girlfriend really did do it.]]** There was the one time where it looked like Monk had killed one of the people involved in his wife's murder, which he of course hadn't, forcing him to go on the run.* On ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', members of the cast are frequently under suspicion and sometimes even arrested:** In one episode, Tony [=DiNozzo=] is under suspicion [[spoiler:as a serial killer; his evidence was planted by a criminal he helped convict]].** This happens to him on a regular basis. In the next season, he's accused of killing his ex-girlfriend's father, and the season after THAT, a murder victim is found in a hotel room booked under his name (There's a reason for this). Each time it's treated as less of a big deal. It's even lampshaded by [=DiNozzo=] at one point.** In the episode directly following the episode where Tony is framed, "Probie", [=McGee=] appears to have unknowingly killed an undercover cop. To this day, we still don't know if he did or not. We do know that it was all an accident though.** In another, Gibbs' friendly rival Fornell of the FBI is arrested for [[spoiler:taking bribes from the mob, and even seems to commit suicide]]. ** Ziva David is in trouble at least twice: In "Jeopardy", a suspect dies mysteriously in her custody while she is alone with him ([[spoiler:he had a stroke]]), and in "Shalom" she is suspected as a double agent.** For several episodes in season six (led up to in season five), NCIS is searching for a mole among its own team, who turns out to be [[spoiler:Michelle Lee]].* In ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', Togusa once gets put on trial over the way he conducted an arrest.* Tends to happen at least once per game in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series.** Most notably during the fourth case of the first when [[spoiler: Miles Edgeworth]] is accused of murder. And again in ''Investigations'', but only for about half an hour.** Heck, start off with the first nonpractice case in the series. After confronting Mia's real murderer Phoenix Wright finds himself accused of the deed after Maya (his assistant-to-be) gets the rap.** Done in flashback a few times. In ''Trials and Tribulations'', [[spoiler: Phoenix decides to go to law school specifically because of seeing Mia defend him in court]] and in another [[spoiler: Gumshoe's first meeting with Edgeworth is when the new detective is accused of Byrne's murder.]]** There's Maggey Byrde, an officer/ex-officer/security guard who winds up accused of murder ''three times''. And convicted once, albeit under false pretenses.* ''Series/TheMentalist'':** Teresa Lisbon was a suspect in one episode.** There's a fairly well-known theory among some fans that BigBad Red John is actually [[spoiler: protagonist Patrick Jane.]] * In ''Series/PushingDaisies'', Ned was suspected of killing a business rival, so had to languish in jail for part of the episode. Fortunately, his friends proved themselves to be skilled investigators even without him.* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' had a season one episode where JD got to witness everything at Sacred Heart from the other side after he developed appendicitis. There was also the season six episode when [[spoiler:Laverne was in a coma]] and the episodes where Carla and Jordan gave birth, all of which occur at Sacred Heart.* In ''FoylesWar'', Sergeant Milner is a suspect in his wife's murder. It is deduced that [[spoiler: he is being framed by a fellow policeman with a grudge]].* Has happened a few times on ''Series/{{Greys Anatomy}}''; George, Callie, and Derek have all been operated on by other cast members So have Izzie, Cristina, Meredith, and Alex. So have some of their family members.* Frequently on ''Series/{{ER}}''. From the very first episode, series regular Carol (though that was not the intent at the time) was treated for a suicide attempt. It would be hard to think of a single character who wasn't a patient as well as a doctor/nurse.* In Canadian drama ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'', this happens sometimes. In one episode, a rogue sniper purposely lured Ed Lane out to come and get him, after he mercilessly killed an innocent police officer and injured one of his teammates.** Many of the main cast have had one or more episodes in which they were taken hostage. In addition to Ed, Greg, Jules, Spike, and Sam have all been hostages at least once. Invariably, the captured team member assists in resolving the situation from the inside, either by covertly relaying intelligence or talking the suspect down directly.** A number of episodes have featured police officers as either suspects or victims in the crisis the SRU has been called in for.* Happens ''many'' times in ''TraumaCenter'' and its spinoff, ''Trauma Team''.* In the second season of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', most of the main cast is under suspicion at some point of being the Bay Harbor Butcher. We've known who it is since the beginning of the show it's Dexter, and it is considered a victory [[spoiler: when the ''wrong'' person is concluded to be the Butcher.]] * Happens all the time in ''Series/{{Casualty}}''.* ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'':** "Vice": The victim was a retired cop** " Alesha": Junior Crown Prosecutor Alesha was raped by a doctor who had previously touched her inappropriately during an exam.** "Samaritan" played this twice--the victim was a cop, as was the person ultimately/indirectly responsible for his death (he didn't shoot him, but did nothing as the man bled to death)** "Deal"/"Survivor's Guilt": DS Matt Devlin was killed by a young man seeking revenge for the police mishandling his brother's murder.** "Tremors": DS Sam Casey is suspected of killing the perpetrator (he was going to receive a ridiculously light sentence). The actual killer was a prison guard.** Obviously, as these were remakes, applies to the original ''Series/LawAndOrder'' as well. The first example here is based on "Helpless", where instead of a prosecutor, Dr. Olivet is the victim.* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' has several episodes in which members of the 4077th staff are treated by their colleagues for various injuries or ailments. Justified in that it was a mobile army hospital three miles from the front lines, and was therefore frequently bombarded by shelling or attacked by snipers, and because if someone got hurt, there was really nowhere else to take them.* ''Series/DueSouth'' Ray gets in trouble for shooting someone because the only person who saw it claims the other guy was unarmed. Ray also had powder on his hands from the shooting range, which made it worse. He seeks shelter in the Canadian Consulate, which as it's Canadian soil,gives Fraser time to clear him before he can be 'extradited'.* ''ForeverKnight'' Nick got accused of murder once, but it was really Lacroix framing him to try to force him to move on.* Happened frequently in ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'', as Jack Webb's way of showing how the police deal with police-involved shootings, {{Dirty Cop}}s, etc. In one, an undercover officer (Kent [=McCord=] before he started playing [[Series/AdamTwelve Officer Reed]]) is accused of robbing a liquor store, and it seems fairly clearly that he's guilty, until he turns out to have a doppelganger who was the real robber. Another involved a detective caught up in bribery and bookmaking, and Friday went undercover pretending he was dirty, to nab the guy.* ''Series/AdamTwelve'' got in on it as well. In one episode, Reed faced an intensive grilling after shooting a sniper in self defense. And then there's the hard-hitting "Elegy for a Pig" episode.* Happens on ''Series/{{JAG}}'' a few times:** Harm is suspected of murdering a Russian Mafioso in "People v. Rabb".** Mac is suspected to have participated in the killing of her ex-husband in "People v. Mac".** Harm is suspected to have published an anonymous Anti-Clinton piece in "Contemptuous Words".** Gunny is suspected to be a gay basher and Tiner is assumed to be homosexual in "People v. Gunny".** Bud Roberts was charged for dereliction of duty in "Exculpatory Evidence".** Admiral Chegwidden is CaughtOnTape hitting a high school student in "Code of Conduct".** Jennifer Coates is a murder suspect in "There Goes the Neighborhood".* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' can handle this plot gracefully.** In "The Great Wall", a constable from station five is murdered, but the case is assigned to Detective Murdoch from station four. The whole constabulary still consider themselves to be a family and things get pretty ugly when the evidence leads to somebody from the police force.** "Murdoch in Wonderland": A man is found murdered at Lewis Carroll costume party. All clues point to the Hatter, which was Murdoch... He himself demands a detective from a different station house as nobody of his colleagues could be objective. But the constables of station four stay involved, as well as Murdoch's superior Inspector Brackenreid.** In "Let Loose the Dogs", Murdoch's father was a murder suspect. Murdoch doesn't want the case, but his boss refuses to comply. Interestingly, Murdoch was prejudiced against his father because they have very serious family issues.* An episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has Lassiter being framed for murder by another officer. Another episode has Shawn getting kidnapped by the villain of the week.* The non-fiction book ''Blood, Sweat and Tea'', adapted from the now sadly defunct blog "Random Acts of Reality", includes a TruthInTelevision example. The protagonist, an EMT with the London Ambulance Service, throws his knee out while loading a gurney into the back of his vehicle before his shift and has to be treated by his colleagues.* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Castle is framed for murder, and it falls on his friends to clear his name.* ''{{Series/Emergency}}'', in spades.** Johnny is hit by a car, infected with a virus, quarantined with Roy for radiation exposure, and bitten by a snake at different times.** Cap, Roy and Marco are all electrocuted in different eps.** Roy also has to get what's left of his tonsils out in one episode, and is injured in a building fire along with Marco another time.** Chet is injured in an explosion in one episode and breaks his shoulder in another.** Dr. Early needs heart bypass** Dr. Brackett is a car accident victim** Dixie is seriously hurt at least twice.** and that's leaving out the more minor job-induced injuries that didn't require hospitalization.* The main plot of ''Film/MinorityReport'' kicks off when [=PreCrime=] investigator John Anderton discovers ''he'' is the suspect of a future murder. [[spoiler:He actually does kill the victim, but it's a setup.]]----